What music works the best for receptions?
Since you have a wide range of ages at receptions, the music that seems to always fill the dance floor the best is the music from the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. Some country music often works too, and those country ‘love’ songs always fill the floor with romantic dancers! Hip-hop has it’s moments, but usually with the younger crowd of course, and they are generally a smaller percentage of the guests. Hip-hop is a favorite for the young teens and early twenties crowd that lack dancing skills and grew up with the slow, hard beat of rap aka hip-hop. Hip-hop can kill a reception party quickly. It’s best to save it for the last hour or to avoid it for the most part. People like to ‘feel good’ and even if they are not dancing, they enjoy a great beat, an up scaled tempo, and the music from the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s does the job better than anything else. That’s why songs like YMCA, The Twist, Love Shack, Celebration, Stayin’ Alive, Disco Inferno, Brick House, You Can’t Touch This, and Play That Funk
